Europe

Jewish Journal staff writer Sergio Carmona is on assignment live from Berlin covering the European Maccabi Games. This is his third story in the series. Marcel Reif is a TV sports commentator in Germany who happens to be the ambassador of the European Maccabi Games in Berlin. Reif spoke to a group of journalists from around the world who are participating in a press trip arranged by the German government. Reif was asked if he thought it was a miracle that Jewish athletes can now safely display their Jewish pride in Berlin as they did in the opening ceremony and so far in these games. "It would've been a miracle in '36. Now I think this is normal, but it's...

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